Neighborhood Watch (3x22) review by @mokibobolink

In tonight’s episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, called “Neighborhood Watch,” Deeks and Kensi go deep undercovers….oops I mean undercover. Sorry, bad joke. Couldn’t resist.

Anyway…Deeks and Kensi are living as a married couple in order to find out which of the very interesting neighbors is a Russian sleeper agent. Surprisingly enough, they find said agent pretty fast. Only trouble is, the agent wants out of the spy game and her handler makes quick work of killing her before she can do it.

The new goal then becomes to catch the handler, leaving Deeks and Kensi stuck playing house for a bit longer, which is extremely entertaining to watch. We’ve all seen the flirtations and there’s no denying that they each find the other attractive (I especially enjoyed Kensi’s leering in this one), but how do they react to being stuck in a house all day together and forced to play husband and wife? It doesn’t seem to be too great a hardship on them, after the obligatory complaints about bed hogging, housekeeping, etc.

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Neighborhood Watch (3x22) by @phillydi DENSI-style

Move over Kensi and Deeks! Meet the new suburban IT couple on the block… Justin and Melissa! The buzz over this episode since the trailer came out has been incredible. I thought Twitter was going to explode today with all the excitement! Everyone is waiting for the long awaited shipper moment between these two characters and the question is: will it thrill or disappoint Densi fans out there? With a heavy handed finale coming up, the producers wanted to have a fun and enjoyable episode before facing the dramatic ending of Season 3. What better way to accomplish that but to send Kensi and Deeks undercover as a married couple?! Most of the time the two agents come off sounding like a married couple anyway, so why not use this incredible pent-up sexual energy for comic relief? Even Shane Brennan admits it’s probably the funniest episode they have delivered in the entire history of the procedural show.

We definitely get some new insights into the partners as they go undercover to oust a Russian sleeper cell deep in suburbia. In an interview with E! Online, Eric Christian Olsen admits this episode will find Densi discovering a lot about each other. “I think the best version of a relationship as it matures is two characters that are kind of discovering each other and themselves through that relationship, and this is a good example of that. Every episode has elements of that, and obviously some are more light-hearted, but even in those we put our defenses down and you see who these characters are at the end of the day.”

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Patriot Acts (3x20) review by @phillydi DENSI style - NEW w/ bromance moments

This is an exciting episode for me with one of my favorite characters returning to the Mission and his old teammates after a way too long (!) hiatus. Welcome back Peter Cambor! Our favorite Psych Ops was definitely missed! I often speculated if Nate was shuffled off to the Middle East (or where ever he was hiding out) because there was a little too much testosterone going on in the bullpen, especially with the addition of Deeks. But whatever the reason, I’m glad he’s back even if on an interim basis. Tonight Nate gets to use his psych powers not only to play an integral part in this week’s investigation but also to discover that there’s a new shipper relationship going on in Ops with Nell and Eric. (Maybe I should add a Nell/Eric Watch, eh?) Ever since season two in Lockup, when Nate acknowledges that he and Nell have know each other in a past life, fans have been speculating on just what the nature of their relationship could be. Tonight we get to find out.

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Vengeance (3x19) review by @phillydi DENSI style

As season three begins its race to the grand finale, we have a Sam-centric episode entitle - Vengeance. Writer Frank Military has been very prolific this year with his fourth script of the season, and it’s always good to see James Whitmore, Jr. behind the camera. Whenever I watch Human Traffic (2:1) I appreciate his directing skills more and more. It remains one of my all time favorite episodes to this day.

Go back to season one and you’ll find Sam interrogating a group of Navy Seals in The Only Easy Day (1:2). In Vengeance it’s another close-knit Seal team who are accused of the murder of a Navy Intel Officer. Once again, Sam goes in to cross-examine the team.

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Vengeance (3x19) review by @mokibobolink for @tvequals

In this episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, called “Vengeance,” the team has a task before them that I did not envy for one second. Starting out as almost any normal case, they are out to find out who murdered an ensign and put his body in a testing range for explosive, but what happens after that is anything but ordinary and starts to pull the group apart. Turns out that the suspects in the crime are the man’s unit, a team of SEALs that are set to leave for a very important rescue mission – a mission that only they have the knowledge and skill to complete.

This is where things get tough. Like “rock and a hard place” kind of tough. Our people must investigate the murder because that’s what they do, but at the same time they know that delaying the team means putting innocent lives in danger. No one is in a more difficult position than Sam. As Kensi put it at one point, Sam is forced to investigate his “family” and it’s not easy. Callen doesn’t want to give the men any special treatment but nor is he immune to the fact that there are lives depending on those men.

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The Dragon and the Fairytale (3x18) review by @mokibobolink for @tvequals

Tonight’s episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, called “The Dragon and the Fairy” starts with a young man getting himself shot while trying to run away from some mysterious men in an equally mysterious black car. I assumed that said young man would be a murder for the team to investigate but I was wrong. Instead he leads them to a ring of criminals running a sweat shop, as well as a man who’s planning some terrorist acts. Pretty impressive coming from a simple kid who can’t even speak English. But even though the team caught all the bad guys there were to be caught, I think my favorite thing they did in this one was to reunite an entire family, all three generations.

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The Dragon and the Fairytale (3x18) review by @phillydi DENSI-style

Hi gang! Welcome back to NCISLA Rewind. It's been a long two weeks, and if you are like me, you were biting at the bit to get to watch a whole new adventure with our favorite NCIS team. Tonight's episode, The Dragon and the Fairy sounds like the whimsical title for the next book from the Chronicles of Narnia series. Except we know better, don't we?! Written by Joe Sachs (Higher Power) and directed by Tony Wharmby (Special Delivery), the team’s mission is to stake out a possible terrorist attack at an international conference to be attended by the Secretary of the Navy.

The show starts off with a suspicious attack on a Vietnamese immigrant worker from the garment district. He’s not talking and the team suspects his fear is hiding a dirty and horrifying secret…. Human trafficking. As they continue their investigation they find a sweat shop operating in LA that supports a terrorist cell trying to discredit a pro-democracy group that has been speaking out against the Vietnamese government and exposing injustice. The team is intent on revealing the ties that the sweat shop has to the terrorist group and then stopping them from planning the attack at the conference.

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Blye, K. (3x16) review DENSI-style by @phillydi

Welcome back to NCISLA Rewind! I haven’t been this excited about a new show since The Debt! Here we have another chance to explore what makes Densi click and maybe take them one step closer to that shipper relationship we all covet. This two part episode has been highly anticipated by all fans since the first hint that the creators were finally going to explore Kensi’s family history. Tonight’s episode was written by perennial favorite, Joe Wilson who along with Jonathan Frakes brings to the screen a dramatic and nail biting first-parter! It’s great to find Frakes back behind the camera again (Ok, I admit it. I had a fan girl crush on Number One since his glory days on Star Trek the Next Generation!). Together with Joe Wilson, he was able to balance just the right amount of tension and angst in this long awaited episode.

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The Watchers (3x12) review by @mokibobolink for @daemonstv

In this episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, called “The Watchers”, we meet a new foe for the team. No it’s not a terrorist coming to strike fear into the citizens of LA, or a deadly serial killer. It’s a brand new assistant director bent on knocking Hetty from her place as the leader of the team.

I’m a big fan of Miguel Ferrer so I have to admit that I found most of his antics in the beginning pretty damn funny. I figured that he was just on for a single episode to mix things up, raise a threat about Hetty’s possible departure and then move on. I mean we’ve already had a new director come and take her place temporarily before, I wasn’t about to believe that she was leaving this time.

But about halfway through, I saw how serious Granger was and suddenly he wasn’t (quite) as funny any more. He’s really got it out for Hetty, but I loved how she and the team never backed down from him. I have no doubt they will get the best of this guy and I’m curious to find out what his end game is and why he set his sights on Hetty and her team.

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NCIS: Los Angeles - Callen, G (1x24) review

As the first season of this show comes to a close, I find myself thinking something that I thought quite a bit toward the beginning of the season: this show is just so exciting. The action scenes are so well done, and having Sam or Callen driving furiously in pursuit of a suspect is never a disappointment.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Found (1x21) review

It’s been eight episodes since we last saw Dom, and while it didn’t seem to make sense that he would just have been gone with no explanation, now all of a sudden he’s back. It’s quite surprising that he doesn’t survive the episode, especially considering the fact that he never left Los Angeles, managed to escape the terrorists without any help from NCIS, and was even with Sam when he took fatal fire.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Fame (1x22) review

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Regarding this week’s case, a romance between an heiress and a random individual isn’t something completely original, but fortunately this worked out well and didn’t seem stale at all. Kensi was doing a great job of maintaining her cover, but having the head of the household come in and juts blow it so spectacularly was a crying shame. At least the heiress herself managed not to take a hint.

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NCIS: Los Angeles - Hand to Hand (1x19) review

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Sam going undercover is just as great as Callen going undercover, and it’s especially exciting when he is forced to display his athletic and martial arts-related abilities. That skill comes in quite handy when defending against an angry platoon of trained and dangerous marines.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Blood Brothers (1x18) review

For a show that features an awful lot of violence, the opening to this episode was fairly intense, featuring a drive-by shooting that left the victim riddled by an excessive number of bullets. Unlike the show that spun it off, this series really is delving into the kind of least-connected slayings of marines, with a street race plot last week and now this. I cite that as a positive rather than a negative thing since it allows the cases to be more diverse and exciting.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Chinatown (1x16) review

While the case here is certainly a quality one and far more engaging and accessible than some of the recently-featured ones, it’s still the banter that kills me every time. From the first post-credits scene, where Callen claimed to be working out and Sam responded first with his observation of Callen only running when people are shooting at them and then putting on a very high-pitched motherly voice, this episode was full of hilarious one-liners.


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NCIS: Los Angeles - Ambush (1x08) review by Abe

Opening the episode with the marine’s paranoid flight into the aquarium and having his death captured on FishCam was a great jump-start for a very action-centric episode. Bringing back Special Agent Mike Renko, who appeared in the two-hour backdoor pilot that aired as part of the previous season of “NCIS,” was fun because he doesn’t distract from the main players of the team but has an entertaining rapport with the whole team and Kensi in particular.


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NCIS: Los Angeles - Pushback (1x07) review by Abe

It’s fitting that this series references events that occurred in its backdoor pilot on the same night that the very show that launched it features a crossover of Vance’s villain nemesis that appeared on this show just a few weeks ago. The opening sequence was an intense start to the episode, and exploring Callen’s mysterious past was a great focus.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Bank Job (1x15) review by Abe

This is one case where the "24 hours earlier" device works alright with pulling the rug out from under its audience by revealing that all was definitely not as it seemed.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - LD50 (1x14) review by Abe

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Only moments later, I truly enjoyed Sam tackling Callen and pushing him into the water, forcing him to keep the bomb in the water. His subsequent surprise pumping of a needle into Callen’s arm without warning was particularly hilarious. Callen was also a major part of another funny exchange at the very end of the episode, where Hetty insisted on synthetic fibers in the pillow that would be used to be smother her because she’s allergic to feathers. Oh, how delightful the relationships on this show are.

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NCIS: Los Angeles - Missing (1x13) review by Abe

It’s interesting that the first team member to really find their life threatened on this show is the one who’s actually been least in the spotlight. We’ve hardly seen anything of Dominic, especially in comparison to the rest of the characters.
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